Games like Spirit Island

The closest matches to Spirit Island: Aeon's End, Dune: Imperium, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Wingspan, and Root. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If Spirit Island is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aeon's End, Dune: Imperium and Sentinels of the Multiverse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric and immersive, and single out its card drafting and cooperative play. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

Spirit Island is a cooperative strategy game released in 2020 by Handelabra Games Inc. Players take on the roles of elemental spirits defending their island from invading colonizers. The game features card-drafting, deck-building, procedural generation, role selection, and variable objectives, supporting asymmetric cooperative play with a massive campaign length that requires sit-down sessions. Players describe the experience as atmospheric and immersive, highlighting high replayability through different spirit and adversary combinations, with tactical positioning being a key consideration. The game runs at a challenging difficulty level and is playable on Steam Deck, currently holding a 91% positive rating from 1,084 Steam reviews at $9.99.

About Spirit Island: Become the spirits of the land, and defend the island from colonizing Invaders spreading blight and destruction! Your spirits work with the native islanders to increase your power and drive the invading colonists from your island in this strategic area-control game.